For those who asked: I did race in St. Anthony’s this past weekend…but I didn’t finish. My coach and I decided for numerous reasons to not do the race in its entirety. I did leave myself the option of doing the whole thing in case I felt absolutely spectacular…but that didn’t happen. My next race is the Seoul WCS and I will definitely be ready to go for that!
But that doesn’t mean that the St. Anthony’s course was completely deprived of the Collington clan this year – my Mom raced! She tried to do it last year when the swim was canceled and was unfortunately behind the cutoff this year of when the St. A’s race directors decided to shorten swim due to poor swim conditions (there was a vicious wind out of the southeast causing some major chop that got worse as the morning went on – waves 25 and beyond swam a shorter course). Either way she nearly finished an entire Olympic distance race and might be back for the whole thing next year…
My mom heading out onto the run…too fast for my iPhone camera!